Monthly Archives: June 2006

I know that at least a handful of people who look in on this blog are also fans of the massive media repository of avant-wonder at UbuWeb. Just a quick note that a whack of new material has been added … Continue reading →

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The past few days have been exhausting, demanding, exhilarating, frustrating, humbling and confusing and wonderful. Usually some combination thereof. I’ve really grooved on Croatia. Zagreb is a fine city, with the architecture and atmosphere of a great European centre, though … Continue reading →

I apologise for this, and obviously the number of people likely to be interested is going to be quite low. But just had to note my first experience with jetliner wireless. Not the fastest connection I’ve had, but not bad … Continue reading →

If it isn’t Googlicious irony enough that I am the most relevant Brian Lamb according Google — beating out a more eminent namesake… (I always wonder if he’s a bit annoyed at me.) Now I find out I am top … Continue reading →

Free beer, free wireless — access courtesy of my well-travelled and well-accredited companion. And we haven’t even left Vancouver yet. Plenty of work to do, so it will not descend into a full-blown debauch. But I think this is a … Continue reading →

Online video has been around forever (at least measured in web years), and I’ve been hearing about videoblogging for some time. But I’m still amazed at how quickly the new generation of online video sharing services have emerged and become … Continue reading →

In addition to the SocialLearning.ca workshop at the ETUG event last week, I also was on the closing panel. I presented a a short riff on some of my biggest screw-ups learning experiences trying to foster and support social software … Continue reading →

Jason Toal has put together a really fine screencast tutorial of Google Reader and posted it on SocialLearning.ca. I had never really dug GR before, but he does a really fine job of demonstrating the strengths of the application, including … Continue reading →

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Big thanks to Joan Vinall-Cox for cross-posting pointers to a couple very promising pieces on the SocialLearning.ca site: The current issue of Innovate has a number of interesting articles. I especially recommend Mejias’s Teaching Social Software with Social Software and … Continue reading →

"...the project on the idea of innovation looks at innovation as a category and its historical development since Antiquity. It identifies the concepts that have defined novelty through history and that have led to innovation as a central category of modern society."

"Whenever technology companies complain that our broken world must be fixed, our initial impulse should be to ask: how do we know our world is broken in exactly the same way that Silicon Valley claims it is? What if the engineers are wrong and frustration, inconsistency, forgetting, perhaps even partisanship, are the very features that […]

"He urges us to destroy a system that he has not made the slightest effort to understand. He sees math added at a particular time in educational history, makes some broad claims about why that might be, and associates the utility of math in the current curriculum with a series of decisions made by thousands […]

"all the joints of the chair are cast in wax with a piece of nichrome wire embedded in the wax. An Arduino with a small switch keeps track of how many times the chair has been used, while a solenoid taps out how many uses are left in the chair every time the user gets […]

"We were so into the net around the time of Kid A," he says. "Really thought it might be an amazing way of connecting and communicating. And then very quickly we started having meetings where people started talking about what we did as 'content'. They would show us letters from big media companies offering us […]

"Facebook is now recycling users Likes and using them to promote “Related Posts” in the news feeds of the user’s friends. And one more thing, the users themselves have possibly never seen the story, liked the story or even know that it is being promoted in their name."

"Comparatively few of the nation’s more than 4,000 degree-granting American colleges or universities …. have the personnel, instructional and technological infrastructure, reputation (brand), and available cash to invest in launching their own MOOCs"

Via Scott Leslie: "Returning to our opening example of Blackboard’s interaction design, we can see how verisimilitude to the classroom has been deliberately created to maximize the more efficient management academic labor in order to cut administrative costs and cater to the exploding market within higher education for distance learning. Developing a digital environment that […]

This is from a 62 CD set called "The History of Electroacoustic Music" that was floating around as a torrent, reputedly curated by a Brazilian student. It's sketchy. The torrent vanished and the collection has long been unavailable.

Joss Winn "think about hacking as both learning and as labour and tried to articulate this in a couple of blog posts about learning a craft and the university as a hackerspace. At that time, I thought that one intervention that I might make at Lincoln in trying to get students to challenge and re-produce […]